MS Eng 1472
Kinloch, George Ritchie, 1796?-1877, compiler. Collection of Scottish proverbs:
Guide.
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Call No.: MS Eng 1472
Creator:
Kinloch, George Ritchie,
1796?-1877, compiler.
Title: Collection of Scottish proverbs,
Date(s): 1824.
Quantity:
4 v. (.75 linear ft.)
Abstract: Scrapbooks
containing transcribed Scottish proverbs, collected by antiquarian and ballad authority, George
Ritchie Kinloch.
Bonnie B. Salt
Source unknown. Received in the Child Memorial Library: 1915 Dec. 17. Recat. from Prov 45.4*
An unidentified dealer's description (#228) found
with the collection states: "At the sale of Mr. Kinloch's library in 1877 it brought £7."
The 1877 Dec. 3-4 catalogue of the sale of Kinloch's library lists this material as sale item
number 815 "Proverbs. Collection of Scottish Proverbs and Proverbial Expressions, with notes,
in three quarto scrap books, with lot of loose slips ready for insertion."
George Ritchie Kinloch, was a Scottish antiquary and authority on ballad lore,
best known as editor of Ancient Scottish Ballads. He was born at Stonehaven,
Kincardineshire, Scotland, about 1796, and became a lawyer. In 1824 he projected, without
publishing, a "Collection of Scottish proverbs." In 1827 he published, Ancient Scottish
ballads recovered from tradition, and never before published, and The ballad
book. In 1842 he was appointed assistant-keeper of the register of deeds in Edinburgh
Register House and was head from 1851-1869. He died in Edinburgh in 1877.
Arranged in volume order.
Collection of 3 scrapbooks containing slips of
paper pasted onto volume sheets. Slips of paper have autograph Scottish proverbs, English
equivalents, and notes concerning the proverbial expressions. Also includes one volume of loose
slips of paper with proverbs. Includes a total of over four thousand proverbs in three groupings:
two distinct alphabets A-Z, and at the end a grouping of local proverbial rhymes, phrases, and
traditional sayings arranged by the counties of Scotland.
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(1)
Kinloch, George Ritchie,
1796?-1877, compiler. Vol I: Proverbial sentences (first alphabet), A-M : AMs scrapbook,
Edinburgh, Scotland,
1824.
1v.
Includes chart at front of volume listing count of phrases by
letter, showing 1385 total phrases in this volume. Also includes section of unordered pencilled
proverbial entries at end of volume, and some other entries (in pencil) throughout volume. A
note at front states that the pencilled entries are not included in total count (most entries are in
ink).
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(3)
Kinloch, George Ritchie,
1796?-1877, compiler.
Proverbial sentences (second alphabet) A-Y; and
Local rhymes : AMs, scrapbook,
Edinburgh,
Scotland,
1824.
1v.
and 1 folder in 1 volume.
Includes chart at front of
volume listing count of phrases by letter, showing 1210 total phrases in this volume, and adding
that there are loose slips totaling 600 [refers to item (4) below]. Also includes pencilled entries
"that may be duplicates."
Local rhymes section further described as:
"sayings of various families, local proverbial rhymes, phrases and traditionary sayings arranged
by region" [by Scottish county].
Clippings on proverbs
found loose in volume were removed to folder.
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(4)
Kinloch, George Ritchie,
1796?-1877, compiler.
Proverbial sentences, loose slips : AMs
fragments, Edinburgh, Scotland,
1824.
2v.
Approximately 600 loose slips of proverbial phrases. Includes packet-groupings for: A, B, C,
D/E, F, G, H, I/J/K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S [missing], T, W, Y, and English phrases.
Vol. I includes: A-O; Vol. II includes: P-English phrases.
See item (3) above for chart
giving item count of phrases in this section. Group S was missing at time of end-processing in
October 2004.
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